EMBERSWORN
PRESS KIT
THE SUN DID NOT SET. IT WAS PUT OUT.
Launches 1 November 2026. EMBERSWORN is a dark-fantasy action RPG from Hire The Robots. It is not yet playable by the public, and nothing on this page links to the game.
The kit is one zip: this fact sheet, 16 screenshots, the logos and app icon, and two short clips. 22 files.
THE STORY IN THREE LINES
- EMBERSWORN is a dark-fantasy action RPG set sixty years after the light went out of Vaelmoor in a single afternoon. You carry the last good coal from the last good fire.
- Lukas Dulka, a Sydney dad with 25 years in software, directed AI tools to make the code, the art, the 3D models, the music, the voices and the films, and decided what stayed and what was thrown out. It began with the ideas of his seven-year-old son, Aiden, and Aiden’s ideas still go in.
- It launches on 1 November 2026. It is not yet playable by the public.
FACT SHEET
- Title
- EMBERSWORN
- Tagline
- The sun did not set. It was put out.
- Genre
- Dark-fantasy 3D action RPG, single-player.
- Developer and publisher
- Hire The Robots
- Game director and executive producer
- Lukas Dulka
- Launch
- 1 November 2026
- Status
- In development. Not yet playable by the public. Android is in closed testing on Google Play, by invitation.
- Platforms
- Android and web browsers.
- Classes
- Four, each as a hero or a heroine: Ashblade, Stormweaver, Veilrunner, Gravecaller.
- World
- Five realms, in order: The Cinder Waste, The Ashwood, The Drowned Vault, The Ashen Span, The Sunless Throne. One last fire.
- Guardians
- Five, one to a realm: The Charred Shepherd, The Ironroot Warden, Nameless, Gravelow, The Quencher.
- What is in it
- Loot and gear, skills and builds, companions, bounties, puzzle rooms, a camp to come back to, and short animated films between the acts.
- Website
- embersworn.com
- Press contact
- press@embersworn.com
HOW IT IS MADE
Lukas Dulka describes what he wants, in plain language, to an AI assistant. The assistant plans the work, runs AI models to make the pieces, writes the code, and tests the game in a real browser. He looks at the result and says what is wrong. Builds are rejected and redone; the project's own records show it.
MADE WITH AI
- CodeAbout 58,000 lines of JavaScript in about 110 files, written and tested by an AI coding agent to Lukas Dulka's direction (figures as at 30 September 2026).
- ArtHeroes, monsters, halls and illustrations, designed with AI image tools.
- 3D modelsCharacters, monsters and props, turned from that art into 3D by AI image-to-3D tools, then cleaned up and finished in Blender.
- ScoreComposed for the game with ACE-Step.
- VoicesThe townsfolk speak through Seed Audio.
- FilmsPainted plates animated with LTX-2.5, narrated with Seed Audio and Chatterbox, scored with ACE-Step.
- Some sound effectsGenerated with MOSS-SoundEffect v2.0 (Apache License 2.0).
NOT AI
- DirectionWhat to build, what looks right, what gets thrown out and redone, and when it launches: Lukas Dulka's calls. He also owns and funds the project.
- Character animationRetargeted from human motion-capture libraries (CC0, public domain).
- Most sound effectsCC0 libraries by Kenney, Still North Media and the OpenGameArt community.
- Enginethree.js and cannon-es (MIT licence).
- TypeCinzel, EB Garamond and Source Sans 3 (SIL Open Font License 1.1).
SCREENSHOTS
16 stills captured from the running game, each 1920 x 1080 JPG. Where a caption says HUD off, the interface is hidden; the rest show it as a player sees it. Free to use in coverage of EMBERSWORN.
LOGOS AND ICON
CLIPS
Press play to load a clip. Each has a download link. The gameplay loop is real play, recorded from the running game.
Thousand Cuts
CREDIT
A game by Hire The Robots. Game director and executive producer: Lukas Dulka, Kogarah, Sydney. Lukas is available for interviews, on camera or by phone.
Please credit the images and clips as EMBERSWORN, Hire The Robots. The full credits, with every tool and licence, roll in the game.
PRESS CONTACT
Questions, interview requests, and anything missing from this kit.